Alaska Statutes Title 47, Chapter 47.24 - Protection of Vulnerable Adults

• Sec. 47.24.010 Persons Required to Report; Reports of Harm.
  (a) Except as provided in (e) and (f) of this section, the following persons who, in the performance of their professional duties, have reasonable...
• Sec. 47.24.011 Duties of the Department Regarding Services and Protection for Vulnerable Adults.
  In order to facilitate the provision of supportive and protective services for vulnerable adults, the department shall(1) compile information on available supportive and protective...
• Sec. 47.24.013 Reports of Undue Influence, Abandonment, Exploitation, Abuse, Neglect, or Self-Neglect of Vulnerable Adults in Out-Of-home Care Facilities.
  (a) If a report received under AS 47.24.010 pertains to the undue influence, abandonment, exploitation, abuse, neglect, or self-neglect of a vulnerable adult who...
• Sec. 47.24.015 Action on Reports.
  (a) Upon the department's receipt of a report under AS 47.24.010 that is not transferred under AS 47.24.013 , the department, or its designee,...
• Sec. 47.24.016 Surrogate Decision Makers for Vulnerable Adults.
  (a) If the department determines under AS 47.24.015 that a vulnerable adult is in need of protective services, but the department cannot obtain the...
• Sec. 47.24.017 Delivery of Protective Services for Vulnerable Adults.
  (a) If the department determines under AS 47.24.015 that a vulnerable adult is in need of protective services and the vulnerable adult, the vulnerable...
• Sec. 47.24.019 Petitioning Court for Certain Protective Services.
  (a) If, after investigation under AS 47.24.015 , the department has reasonable cause to believe that a vulnerable adult is in need of protective...
• Sec. 47.24.020 , 47.24.030. Action; Protective Services. [Repealed, Sec. 14 Ch 129 Sla 1994].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 47.24.040 Monitoring.
  If ongoing protective services are provided to a vulnerable adult under AS 47.24.017 , the department shall monitor the adult's situation, as the department...
• Sec. 47.24.050 Confidentiality of Reports.
  (a) Investigation reports and reports of the undue influence, abandonment, exploitation, abuse, neglect, or self-neglect of a vulnerable adult filed under this chapter are...
• Sec. 47.24.060 Authority of the Department. [Repealed, Sec. 14 Ch 129 Sla 1994].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 47.24.070 Required Review of Proposed Regulations.
  Before adoption by the department, regulations to implement this chapter shall be provided to the Alaska Commission on Aging established under AS 47.45.200 for
• Sec. 47.24.075 - 47.24.110. Reports; Definitions. [Repealed, Sec. 14 Ch 129 Sla 1994].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 47.24.120 Immunity From Liability; Retaliation Prohibited.
  (a) A person who in good faith makes a report under AS 47.24.010, regardless of whether the person is required to do so, is...
• Sec. 47.24.130 Treatment Through Spiritual Means.
  This chapter may not be construed to mean that a person is unduly influenced, abused, neglected, self-neglected, vulnerable, unable to consent, abandoned, exploited, or...
• Sec. 47.24.900 Definitions.
  In this chapter,(1) "abandonment" means desertion of a vulnerable adult by a caregiver;(2) "abuse" means(A) the intentional, knowing, or reckless nonaccidental and nontherapeutic infliction...

Last modified: November 15, 2016